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In The Simpsons fifth season's first episode, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet. He also throws it away saying "Airplane's upside down!".
In the season 3 episode of "The Lucy Show", "Lucy and the Missing Stamp", Lucy loses the stamp that Mr. Mooney paid $3,000 for in a vacuum cleaner, and must go through all kinds of crazy stunts to retrieve it.
The play Mauritius, written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, features the Inverted Jenny alongside the one- and two-penny Mauritius "Post Office" stamps.
In the movie Brewster's Millions (1985), Richard Pryor's character has to spend $30 million in 30 days to receive his actual inheritance of $300 million. He buys an Inverted Jenny from a stamp dealer (who claims - inaccurately - that it is "the only known copy in existence") for $1.25 million, and then uses it to mail a postcard to the crooked lawyers "Granville & Baxter" plotting to steal his money from him.
In the movie American Cousins (2003) the main character, Roberto, is a modest stamp collector who owns a correctly printed version of the stamp. At the climax of the film Roberto's mobster cousin, Tony, presents him with an Inverted Jenny. When an overjoyed Roberto points out that the airplane is upside-down, Tony exclaims: "They gave me a DUD?!"
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